I was rather disappointed by Fallout 3 tbh, played the PC version. Finished it maybe 4-5 days after I got it, suppose it would amount to 35 hours or so of playtime. I was already just a few hundred xp away from level cap (20) so I saw no reason to continue if my character wouldn't progress.
Who wants to play 15-20 more hours with nothing left to add to your character?
The game is also too easy most of the time, with the VATS you basically blow up everything with one shot after you get the sniper rifle and the chinese assault rifle.
Ammo is ludicrously simple to find and get, I had more than 8000 bullets in the end divided onto 4-5 different weapons and stimpacks are also way too easy to find (had over 250 in the end with each one giving about 100 HP...).
Never had a problem with caps, it was rather an issue of finding vendors with enough cash to buy the loot once you started finding things worth more than 200 caps each (rifles worth over 700 for instance, are almost meaningless since even the richest of the peddlers have maybe 6-700 caps unless you've repaired you stuff beforehand and paid them some).
I found myself trading back heaps of ammo and stimpacks so I wouldn't sell at a massive loss which just spirale the whole ammo/stimpack thing out of hand. What else would I do? Drop the loot or sell it at a heavy loss? Then what's the use of loot other than fixing your stuff?
Main story is way too short (as is Bethesda's style) and too many sidequests are similar and unengaging to me; usually it revolves around "go there and see what its like" or "kill those suckers for something bad they've done".
It really feels like whatever you do has no impact on the world, except the times when guards will automatically know you snagged something despite never having detected you (due to the karma system everyone in the worls knows immideatly whether you're good or bad and that's kinda lame).
I'm thinking of writing a full review and posting it, listing and arguing the better and the worse points of the title a little further. Just let me know if anyone wants a review from someone who wasn't blown away by this game!







